RELIGION AND BELIEF

belief in many gods

•Monotheism belief in one GodMuslim Christianity Hinduism Buddhism CHRISTIANITY• World’s Biggest Religion• 2.2B Followers• Teachings of Jesus Christ who lived in the Holy Land (Israel)• Belief: There is another life with one, eternal, loving God ISLAM• Second most popular religion in the world• Thousand Million Followers• Complete Way of Life• Arabia• Prophet Muhammad• Belief: There is only one God, called Allah. HINDUISM• World’s Third Most Popular and Oldest Existing Religion• 750M Followers• Originated from North India• Brahminism• Belief: Religion is a matter of practice rather than of beliefs.Atman Reincarnation Samsara BUDDHISM• Northeastern India• Siddhartha Gautama• 2,500 years old• 350M Followers• Main Religion in many Asian countries• Nirvana• Belief: They believe that nothing in the world is perfect, and that the Buddha (not a god) found the answer to why it is like this. INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION• Formed by a sect• Organized religion• Belief systems and rituals are systematically arranged and formally established• Official doctrine (or dogma)• World's largest religious groups *Property of STI J0055 SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE• Art II. Sec. 6 of the 1987 Constitution The Separation of Church and State shall beinviolable.• Art. III. Sec 5 Freedom of Religion. Anyone can choose their ownreligion with out the coercion of the State. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATEShould a Roman Catholic Bishop ever concernhimself with the impeachment of a Presidentaccused of a host of unconstitutional misdeedsin office? SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATEAs far as the citizen’s right is concerned,the Bishop himself is a part of the FilipinoCitizenry where as he can beconcerned about the unconstitutionalactions of the President. Hence, Publicoffice is a public trust.*Property of STI J0055RELIGION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION WOMEN AND RELIGION• Traditionally, women have been equated with religion as transmitter of religious belief and practices to their children. Men as the originator and dominated by men as leaders.• As the global trend of Gender Sensitivity made its movement, a call for “matriarchal religion” and “Goddess Feminism” was proposed.• From the beginning: (A male deity/Deity should have a mother, Gaia or mother earth)• Ideas such as strength, independence, beauty and divinity SECULARIZATION

• Defined as Modernization necessarily leads to “a decline

of religion”, both in society, and in the minds of individuals” (Berger, 1999). Modernization drastically replaces tradition with science-based knowledge. SECULARIZATION• Partial Secularization: which is the common meaning of the word, and expresses "The separation between religion and state".• Complete Secularization: this definition is not limited to the partial definition, but exceeds it to "The separation between all (religion, moral, and human) values, and (not just the state) but also to (the human nature in its public and private sides), so that the holiness is removed from the world, and this world is transformed into a usable matter that can be employed for the sake of the strong".